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	Brian Friel
		Brian Friel is hailed as Ireland's greatest living playwright with gems like Translations, Faith Healer, The Saucer of Larks.
		Friel is a tragi-comedian who, in his long career, has explored the Irish psyche and the relation between public/private life and the historical origins of these.
		A cosmic event is such by its capacity to re-determine the contours of possible experience; it is thus an ontological event for it is that sudden intrusion of the modern into the archaic, an intrusion which shatters the spiritual integrity of the place in which identity grows and develops its meanings.
	www.paul-hyde-author.com /friel.html (481 words)

	Brian Friel
		Friel resists the apocalyptic tendencies of the Postmodern, advancing instead what we might call a 'New Humanism,' an existensialist aesthetics which is critical of, as well as informed by, certain aspects of Postmodernism..
		Friel, however subscribes to a more modern concept of translation propounded by such thinkers as Geroge Steiner (passages from whose book After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation are echoed in Friel's play Translations) which regards all communicationa—not just between individuals—as an act of translation.
		Translations, one of Brian Friel's most admired plays, has a title that could aptly be applied to his whole oeuvre as a whole.
	www.eng.umu.se /lughnasa/brian.htm (1060 words)

	Brian Friel
		The Irish playwright Brian Friel is known to be quiet and an infamous recluse.
		Friel's inspiration for writing is driven by the environment he grew up in and his experiences, but are not limited to one specific aspect of his life.
		Friel "has always found it necessary to struggle with the problem of temperament an enhanced feature of people who are bedeviled by failure and compensate for it by making out of their own instability a mode of behavior in which volatility becomes a virtue" (Deane 12).
	www.usna.edu /EnglishDept/ilv/friel.htm (1242 words)

	Brian Friel - Dancing at Lughnasa - Translations - Faith Healer - Philadelphia Here I Come - Ireland Literature Guide
		Brian Friel was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone in 1929, and in 1939 moved with his family to Derry.
		Brian Friel served in the Senate from 1987 to 1989.
		Brian Friel was born in Co Tyrone in 1929.
	www.irelandliteratureguide.com /brian_friel.html (902 words)

	Brian Friel - Wiki Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brian Friel (born January 9, 1929), a catholic teacher's son, was born in Omagh, County Tyrone (Northern Ireland) in 1929.
		Brian Friel was awarded an honorary doctorate by [Rosary College], Chicago, Illinois in 1974; in 1989, BBC Radio devoted a six-play season to his work, the first living playwright to be so distinguished.
		Friel lives in County Donegal which he moved to from Derry, Northern Ireland in 1967.
	www.wiki.ie /wiki/Brian_Friel (388 words)

	Brian Friel - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Friel's family moved to Derry (1939), and he attended St. Patrick's College, Maynooth (B.A., 1949) and a teacher's training college.
		Friel has also written of Irish family life, skillfully mingling it with surreal effects, in such plays as Aristocrats (1979) and the internationally known Dancing at Lughnasa (1990; Tony Award).
		Theatre: A bright light in search of the shadows Brian Friel may shun publicity, but in his 70th year his writing is set to make a very public performance.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-FrielBr.html (519 words)

	FRIEL
		Friel’s Magnum Opus centres on the theme of, its difficulties and inconsistencies.
		This proposition is subtly challenged by Friel by placing, Hugh, the Irishman, in a reverse stereotype role pompously and overbearingly belittling Yolland, the Englishman.
		The supreme irony of the play is that this language has all but disappeared and the language in which Friel is obliged to express his message is the one which has been dominant.
	www.english-literature-essays.com /friel.htm (1392 words)

	Friel
		Friel's father was a native of Derry and a primary school principal.
		After co-founding Field Day, Friel continued his interest in the arts as a member of Aosdana, the national treasure of Irish artists, to which he was elected in 1982.
		Friel contrasts them with Father Jack, who was repatriated from Africa because he had "gone native." He too has lost the ability to express himself: "My vocabulary has deserted me" (71).
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Friel.html (1924 words)

	Brian Friel
		Friel explains the relationship between the classical languages and Irish in a self-portrait (1972): "[We were] translating, scanning, conjugating [the classical texts], never once suspecting that these texts were the testimony of sad, happy, assured, confused people like ourselves." (Murray, 1999, p.
		Friel himself states in a reply to the criticisms of Translations by J. Andrews (1983): "Drama is first a fiction, with the authority of fiction.
		Friel manages to show the coherences between language and politics and the influences of historical events on the life of a nation and its individuals.
	www.lehrerfrenzel.de /brian_friel.htm (19428 words)

	Brian Friel Biography and Summary
		Over the past two decades, Brian Friel has become one of Ireland's best-known playwrights.
		Brian Friel (born January 9, 1929) is a playwright and director from Northern Ireland.
		In the following essay, O'Brien underscores the unifying aspects of Friel's stories and traces his transition from short fiction to drama.
	www.bookrags.com /Brian_Friel (190 words)

	Two Plays After - Brian Friel
		Two Plays After is the inevitable result: a double-bill presenting Friel’s adaptation of The Bear, one of Chekov’s seriocomic farces written early in his career, and then Afterplay, an original work inspired by Chekov and making use of characters and story elements from Three Sisters and Uncle Vanya.
		Friel draws these two lonely individuals from the fringes of stories whose moments have passed into memory and gives them a moment of contact all of their own.
		The irony is, of course, that in exploring one another and gradually revealing more of their inner truths to one another (in very different ways), they have contributed to a discursive narrative on the nature of human self-definition and told a story as powerful and meaningful as those they have missed out on.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/TwoPlaysAfter.htm (1000 words)

	Drama: Brian Friel (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Friel developed several strains in his work after demonstrating an interest in the pathos of individual lives such as those of Gar O'Donnell and Cass McGuire.
		Friel's play Dancing at Lughnasa (1990) is a personal examination of a childhood in Ballybeg in the 1930s.
		Brian Friel makes his characters' speeches rich with rhythms of everyday Irish country life and the color and metaphor of people whose joy in language is intense and satisfying.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/drama/friel.htm (604 words)

	Amazon.com: Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews, 1964-1998: Books: Brian Friel,Christopher Murray (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Friel had written plays and short stories before that, giving up his teaching job to become a full-time writer in 1960 and living for part of that time in the United States.
		Friel likes to cite the ideas of TS Eliot as a model of his own sense of his role as a writer, and this helps us to see that Friel's stance is distinctly old-fashioned.
		Friel conceives theatre as a kind of agora (the place where Athenians would debate issues of the day), a neutral space accepted by the polis as a zone for reasoned debate.
	www.amazon.com /Brian-Friel-Diaries-Interviews-1964-1998/dp/0571200699 (1325 words)

	Brian Friel Biography / Profile
		Brian Friel (freel), born Bernard Patrick Friel, is an important literary figure who secured for himself a place among Ireland’s great dramatists.
		Friel was educated first at Derry’s Long Tower School, where his father taught, and later at St. Columb’s College.
		A Derry schoolteacher for ten years, Friel left the profession in 1960 to turn his efforts entirely to writing....
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/brian-friel-9810001160 (118 words)

	Brian Friel's Play Translation: How Communication Prevents Chaos - Associated Content (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brian Friel’s play Translations deals with the issues of the importance of language to an existing culture and to the forced re-creation of an already existing culture.
		The play explores the difficulties and impossibilities of trying to completely understand a language foreign to oneself and how those difficulties extend to other areas of social interaction which are necessary to the building of a civilization.
		The purpose of their expedition is not laid out in a completely and satisfyingly factual way for the people who are going to be affected by the changes to the map (Kearney, 91).
	www.associatedcontent.com /article/57973/brian_friels_play_translation_how_communication.html (589 words)

	Brian Friel Foreword to In Conall's Footsteps, Book about South West Donegal, Ireland
		Brian Friel Foreword to In Conall's Footsteps, Book about South West Donegal, Ireland
		And all those stone-walled fields between Doochary and GlencolmbkiIle are now even richer because of the book they inspired.
		At Brian Friel's request two pages from the book were included in Dublin's Abbey Theatre programme for the world premier of Friel's play 'Wonderful Tennessee'.
	www.inconallsfootsteps.com /Foreword.htm (573 words)

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